the fact that — despite there being next to no crime and the only people who worry about crime being gibbering ninnies — it’s somehow become a serious political issue.

Call me a gibbering ninny then. For while crime has not soared in London, there is a worrying number of fatalities and stabbings and crime aimed at the young. Hardly “next to no crime”. And although we cannot say it, the crime rate of blacks and ethnic minorities is totally disproportionate.